Long Saved Poems
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Constructive CritismThere's consequences in all we say and do
Go forward and walk your walk and I'll go ahead and talk my talk
Quite distraught due to the fact that you're too good to be true
I...
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Categories:
saved, deep,
Form:
Free verse
Want To Play a GameYou’re sick, demented, and twisted and you want to judge me for my sins? What about yours? The ones that lie deep within
The ones that sculpted you into the person that you are, the ones...
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Categories:
saved, death, fear, games, horror, sad love, scary,
Form:
Rhyme
Dragon StewOn an early morning just before school
My tummy is churning my head hurts too
My feet are cold my forehead is hot
I have a runny nose and a tongue with blue dots
“Mom come quick!” I helplessly...
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Categories:
saved, 4th grade, 5th grade, adventure, anxiety, bible,
Form:
Rhyme
An Uppercut I RememberDad hit me only once, an upper cut to the solar plexus. It nearly lifted me off my feet. I was 17 then and already fairly tall, 6’1.” He was 48 and of medium height,...
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Categories:
saved, father son,
Form:
Blank verse
Summer
“SUMMER”
Where
has Summer
gone?
The world
has lost
Summer
Sweet
little
dream
missing
all those other
beautiful
small dreams
seen as toys
small and
inconsequential
casually tossed aside,
disposable play,
things
pure shining lights
smiling eyes once so bright,
switched off,
'neath...
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Categories:
saved, abuse, child abuse,
Form:
Epic
That Long Evening
When you came to me...
Not that you wanted me. Oh, no! It was I who wanted you,
Your comfort... your caring... your
... compassion, your compassion...
Your body, beautiful and young, perhaps that as well at...
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Categories:
saved, feelings, lost, thank you,
Form:
Free verse
The Strange Case of Ft
"The Strange Case of F.T."
They say the dead don’t talk
the stories I have calculated
to deliver a saving grace
confessional shared amongst
my equal peers, or so I deem
you somewhat sometimes seem,
less than me, you...
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Categories:
saved, dark, horror, poets,
Form:
Narrative
Nemesis, Confrontation and the Rejoined Battle, Now CompletedNemesis, Confrontation And The Rejoined Battle,
Now Completed
(Nemesis) - Part One
O'lord of blight dare thee to now abide
Leaving thy abode to earthen realm ride
As punisher with dark universal might
As grief bearer, humanity to smite!
Dar'est thee enter,...
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Categories:
saved, art, creation, faith, humanity, light, meaningful, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
First They Came For the MuslimsFirst they came for the Muslims
after Martin Niemoller
First they came for the Muslims
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Muslim.
Then they came for the homosexuals
and I did not speak out
because I was...
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Categories:
saved, culture, discrimination, faith, god, islamic, truth, usa,
Form:
Free verse
How Can I Not Love You - the Free Verse Style~ How Can I Not Love You? ~
( Free Verse )
~O~
Even before
I met you the way I do now
I always
knew about You, perhaps not
in the sense and...
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Categories:
saved, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Various Heresies 2Various Heresies 2
You
by Michael R. Burch
For thirty years You have not spoken to me;
I heard the dull hollow echo of silence
as though strange communion between us.
For thirty years You would not open to me;
You remained...
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Categories:
saved, atheist, bible, christian, god, jesus, religion, religious,
Form:
Verse
An Affective Disorder, the Doctor SaidNo, Freddie can’t say he mourned when his father died and his father’s third wife found Freddie's number and gave him a call to give him the news. His father had been responsible, worked hard,...
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Categories:
saved, anxiety, mental illness, , 8th grade, ,
Form:
Prose
Seek the Lord Everyday - the Tanka Style~ Seek The Lord Everyday~
(Double Tanka)
Extend God's Love now
Show to others the right way
In bad times just Pray
Don't let worries ...
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Categories:
saved, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
SweetspotsCould you tell me, please,
how to become polypathically smarter,
economically deep learned and wisely adept
co-arising ecologically systemic theories
to grow more co-empathic trust
of and for cooperatively organizing positive
nutritional slow-growth,
optimally sustainable Continuous Quality Health Improvement?
Try...
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Categories:
saved, beauty, earth, growth, happiness, humanity, humor, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse
Before the Day EndsI saw a girl at the museum. I had to take her number
It was like my heart woke up from a long slumber
She was admiring a Picasso painting.
I knew nothing about art so I...
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Categories:
saved, longing, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Winter Awakens My CareWinter Awakens My Care
anonymous Middle English poem, circa 1300
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Winter awakens all my care
as leafless trees grow bare.
For now my sighs are fraught
whenever it enters my thought:
regarding this world's joy,
how everything...
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Categories:
saved, angst, england, joy, sorrow, tree, weather, winter,
Form:
Couplet
DEADLY GAME OF MRSAHow the Nation of Islam saved my granddaughter
from Catrina Bell queen pin gang leader it was a warm
day i was suffering from traumatic brain injury raising
five children including my granddaughter only four...
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Categories:
saved, beautiful, daughter, granddaughter, grandmother, my child, writing,
Form:
Free verse
MEMORY THERAPY-You Have Entered the Twilight Zone Poetry Contest~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Nick Tipton lived a quiet life,
west Kentucky, in rolling hills;
been farming there for ten years,
all according to his own will.
This simple life would’ve have kept on,
‘til one night, age thirty-three,
a nightmare burst into his mind,
so...
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Categories:
saved, memory, mystery,
Form:
Rhyme
With All His Love -The Acrophora Style~ With All His Love ~
(Acrophora)
L o ve and Care with all of your heart and soul
O n everything always Seek the Lord
V alue Love, all you...
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Categories:
saved, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
This World of DewTHIS WORLD OF DEW
This world?
Moonlit dew
flicked from a crane's bill.
—Eihei Dogen Kigen, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Seventy-one?
How long
can a dewdrop last?
—Eihei Dogen Kigen, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Dewdrops beading grass-blades
die before...
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Categories:
saved, age, art, autumn, bereavement, death, life, time,
Form:
Haiku
Oncle Albert - Part 1Here he stands, Edwardian vogue, sometimes with his spats,
sometimes with his brogues below his dungarees. With rounded collar points and tie, and jacket donned below this flying suit, his waste is tied with simple...
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Categories:
saved, flying, history,
Form:
Narrative
The Story of My LifeI want to tell you the story of my life. I was born in a barn at dawn. There
were eight of us but I was the only one with spots. I was...
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Categories:
saved, cat, life,
Form:
Prose
Finally Saved Part 1 - Translation From Rabindranath TagoreThis is a translation from a Poem (Title - Niskriti) by Rabindranath Tagore, Nobel-Laureate philosopher poet (1861 - 1941) from India. The story successfully depicts the status of women in a patriarchal society of nineteenth...
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Categories:
saved, father daughter, love, marriage, women,
Form:
Free verse
With the Lord - the Magic 9 Style~ With The Lord ~
( Magic 9 )
~O~
With Jesus we can all attain salvation, all
He reinforces all the good and great things that I know
He picks me up for...
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Categories:
saved, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 46Over the next two evenings after the Council had recessed, Seileach visited each of the Councilman who had voted to release Dyndoeth in an effort to assess their feelings about whether they were inclined to...
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Categories:
saved, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic